Reform of Social Care “Doomed” Unless Issues of Fragile Provider Market are Addressed
A report from the Nuffield Trust warns that years of delay to social care reform and a fragmented market has left provider services unstable and…
Read more...A report from the Nuffield Trust warns that years of delay to social care reform and a fragmented market has left provider services unstable and…
Read more...UN Human Rights Commissioner and former Irish President, Mary Robinson, has called on the UK and the EU to support a waiver of intellectual property…
Read more...Findings from the tenth report of REACT-1, one of the country’s largest studies into COVID-19 infections in England, have been published today (Thursday 8 April)
Read more...A new report published today shows how palliative and end of life care in the UK was compromised by shortages of PPE, essential medicines, and equipment, because these services
Read more...Today’s Government announcement increasing the number of visitors care and nursing home residents can have has met with a cautious welcome from providers. Provider body…
Read more...Care home residents in England will be able to receive two visitors indoors from Monday 12 April as covid restrictions continue to be cautiously eased….
Read more...As many as one in four healthcare workers – equivalent to 330,000 staff – say they are more likely to leave the NHS due to a year of unprecedented pressure
Read more...From today, groups of 6 people, or two households, are allowed to meet outside
Scientists and medics are urging the public not to be tempted to meet indoors as the risk of spreading the virus is significantly higher inside
Just an estimated 60% of care home workers in London have been vaccinated against COVID-19, while progress across England appears to be stalling.
Read more...A new survey carried out during the pandemic by the Care and Support Alliance* (CSA) of over 4,000 people with social care needs has found that more than a quarter
Read more...Sunrise Senior Living UK and Gracewell Healthcare have launched an “Emergence Plan” to guide the care home providers through the easing of social distancing measures over the coming months.
Read more...There have been 470,000 fewer new prescriptions of preventative cardiovascular medications during the pandemic, according to new research by IPPR
Read more...New Age UK analysis busts the myth that the pandemic has driven most older people online and calls for more support for non-users
Read more...The final findings from the ninth report of REACT-1, one of the country’s largest studies into COVID-19 infections in England, have been published today by Imperial College
Read more...But the weekly total keeps falling
Care providers today mourned the 30,000 lives that have been lost in care and nursing homes and prayed that the ongoing fall in Covid-19 fatalities continues.
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